Complex random surfaces

Jun 18, 1990
5 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 254 (1991) 89-93
  • Published: 1991
Report number:
  • NSF-ITP-90-103,
  • MCGILL-90-32

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
Several infinite sets of models of random surfaces, defined by means of integrals over matrix ensembles, are solved in a double-scaling limit. These models are exactly soluble in at least two distinct large N limits. The triangulated surfaces are complicated due to the existence of two distinct kinds of vertices in the triangulations. In one limit, the matrices possess a finite and fixed number of degrees of freedom as N becomes large-nevertheless, these models possess a nontrivial double-scaling limit. A special case of the other limit is known to describe two-dimensional quantum gravity.
  • statistical mechanics
  • matrix model
  • random surface
  • scaling
  • expansion 1/N